IBM CSS(Copy services) Alerts

2021-05-21 Thread Jake Anderson
Hello Good evening Is there a possibility to set an email alert in IBM CSS whenever the status of replication changes ? Like from prepared to suspended or Preparing ? Or atleast whenever the status is suspended can we set an alert in IBM CSS to send email alert to our email boxes ? Jake ---

Re: JCL COND vs IF/THEN - Best catch up resources for MVS / ZOS Technologies

2021-05-21 Thread CM Poncelet
As in "Thank you for putting words in my mouth" and "Yes, and COND is easy to understand; it's also unnatural in that itrequires using the brain as well as the fingers. OK, got it. Thanks for explaining?" - or what other "I'd rather speak for myself. Alternative facts?"   On 22/05/2021 04:04, Seym

Re: JCL COND vs IF/THEN - Best catch up resources for MVS / ZOS Technologies

2021-05-21 Thread Seymour J Metz
Thank you for putting words in my mouth. However, I'd rather speak for myself. Alternative facts? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of CM Poncelet [ponce...@

Re: JCL COND vs IF/THEN - Best catch up resources for MVS / ZOS Technologies

2021-05-21 Thread CM Poncelet
A well-known Bank I was working at, as a systems programming consultant (in '99,) asked me to install custompac. So I did that and checked it out. It was so full of errors, including that the user enter the MCAT password and the hlq of PARMLIB (and of whatever else,) for it to function, never mind

Re: JCL COND vs IF/THEN - Best catch up resources for MVS / ZOS Technologies

2021-05-21 Thread Seymour J Metz
When did custompack stop having SMP steps? Yes, COND is easy to understand; it's also unnatural. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of CM Poncelet Sent: Friday, May 21, 2021 7:01 PM

Re: JCL COND vs IF/THEN - Best catch up resources for MVS / ZOS Technologies

2021-05-21 Thread Seymour J Metz
That's a common misconception. BAL is the assembler for BPS/360, called basic because it lack macros. With the exception of the oddball 20 and 44, BAL was the last basic assembler in the S/360 line. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

Re: Global Mirror Distances

2021-05-21 Thread Cameron Conacher
Thank you. Sent from my iPhone > On May 21, 2021, at 7:39 PM, Mike Schwab wrote: > > Async mirroring would be possible. The bad / good thing is your > source dasd track could be updated several times between passes. What > the controller does is look at the updated track table, 1 bit per > t

Re: Global Mirror Distances

2021-05-21 Thread Mike Schwab
Async mirroring would be possible. The bad / good thing is your source dasd track could be updated several times between passes. What the controller does is look at the updated track table, 1 bit per track, copies the tracks in order, resetting the bits when read and acknowledged, then proceeds t

Re: JCL COND vs IF/THEN - Best catch up resources for MVS / ZOS Technologies

2021-05-21 Thread CM Poncelet
"BAL" means "Basic Assembler Language" and is short for everything that followed it, including HLASM and conditional macro assembler. Cheers ;-) On 21/05/2021 23:10, Seymour J Metz wrote: > I am proud to say that I have never used BAL. But I have used SOAP, TASS, > 7070 Autocoder, 1401 Autocoder,

Re: JCL COND vs IF/THEN - Best catch up resources for MVS / ZOS Technologies

2021-05-21 Thread CM Poncelet
"I don't like it when IBM takes away tools" - and IBM stopped publishing system control block DSECTs with ESA, thereby preventing sysprogs from modifying its OSes (or so it thought.)   Next step (perhaps in 10+ years' time) will be to withdraw support of native SMP/E (and thus of CBPDO/CBIPO instal

Re: Pronunciations (spun off of another thread)

2021-05-21 Thread Bob Bridges
As one who ~likes~ languages and accents, I'm inclined to mourn what I'm told is the gradual but inexorable disappearance of (for example) broad Yorkshire. It's too soon; I haven't learned all the accents there are, yet! But in practice I don't get a vote. The Midwestern-American accent that

Re: Pronunciations (spun off of another thread)

2021-05-21 Thread Tom Brennan
... busy looking up "nowt" :) Tom (USA) On 5/21/2021 2:17 PM, Rupert Reynolds wrote: Being English by birth, I remember working in Holland, and meeting someone with the nickname "Suzie Did It On The Roof" (I didn't ask what she did on that roof :-) ). The short "oo" as in "woof" caught me by su

Re: JCL COND vs IF/THEN - Best catch up resources for MVS / ZOS Technologies

2021-05-21 Thread Seymour J Metz
I am proud to say that I have never used BAL. But I have used SOAP, TASS, 7070 Autocoder, 1401 Autocoder, MODSAP. SAAL, COMPASS and the usual D, F, G, H and HLASM. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion

Re: JCL COND vs IF/THEN - Best catch up resources for MVS / ZOS Technologies

2021-05-21 Thread Seymour J Metz
> ESA's OCO? What's that in reference to? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of CM Poncelet Sent: Friday, May 21, 2021 4:22 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: JCL COND vs I

Re: Pronunciations (spun off of another thread)

2021-05-21 Thread Rupert Reynolds
Being English by birth, I remember working in Holland, and meeting someone with the nickname "Suzie Did It On The Roof" (I didn't ask what she did on that roof :-) ). The short "oo" as in "woof" caught me by surprise. Every day is a school day, etc. But the UK/US one that gets me every time is "r

Re: [External] Re: JCL COND vs IF/THEN - Best catch up resources for MVS / ZOS Technologies

2021-05-21 Thread CM Poncelet
Rex,   By all means. But beware of those who give out unnecessary trinkets with one hand and take over control of systems with the other.   Chris     On 20/05/2021 15:37, Pommier, Rex wrote: > Sorry Chris, > > But I would venture a guess that you're pretty much standing alone here. The > "if it

Re: JCL COND vs IF/THEN - Best catch up resources for MVS / ZOS Technologies

2021-05-21 Thread CM Poncelet
ESA's OCO? On 20/05/2021 08:43, Seymour J Metz wrote: > Progress is also not made by pretending that a blunt tool is sharp just > because you're used to it. COND= is a blunt tool, and IF/THEN puts a bandage > over some, but not all, of its ugliness. > > What's wrong with taking advantage of skel

Re: JCL COND vs IF/THEN - Best catch up resources for MVS / ZOS Technologies

2021-05-21 Thread CM Poncelet
"I fear the Greeks and when bearing gifts." On 20/05/2021 04:34, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Thu, 20 May 2021 02:50:02 +0100, CM Poncelet wrote: > >> Again and with all due respect, progress is made not by blunting the >> tool but by sharpening the user. >>   >> "IF/THEN" does not handle all boole

Re: JCL COND vs IF/THEN - Best catch up resources for MVS / ZOS Technologies

2021-05-21 Thread CM Poncelet
I have used high level languages (PL/I, COBOL, Fortran, C) as well as assemblers (6502, VAX-11/750 macro, ICL System 25, IBM BAL, intel) - and also machine code for zaps and dumps - but I am now retired , thanks😊 . On 20/05/2021 10:17, Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw wrote: > Can I deduce from this that yo

Re: Pronunciations (spun off of another thread)

2021-05-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 21 May 2021 14:38:26 -0400, Bob Bridges wrote: >Heh. When I was in high school we moved from Minnesota (where "root" rhymes >with "foot") to Pennsylvania (where "root" rhymes with "boot"). The kid who >sat behind me in Biology class was named Scott Root. He thought I was making >fun

Global Mirror Distances

2021-05-21 Thread Cameron Conacher
Hello folks, I am trying to find out what we could consider to be a "safe" maximum distance for mirroring DASD from one site to another. We have a situation where site #1 will be thousands (9,000) of miles away from site #2 (across the ocean. I realize there would be a great deal of latency involv

Re: Pronunciations (spun off of another thread)

2021-05-21 Thread Prashant Joshi3
"ROUTE" has troubled/troubling us (people from India) too for a long time. Our English is influenced by both UK & US and we always had this trouble, rather our list of mixed pronunciation is quite long. On top of that we have our own languages too with very specific pronunciation of some sounds. I

Re: Pronunciations (spun off of another thread)

2021-05-21 Thread Bob Bridges
Heh. When I was in high school we moved from Minnesota (where "root" rhymes with "foot") to Pennsylvania (where "root" rhymes with "boot"). The kid who sat behind me in Biology class was named Scott Root. He thought I was making fun of his name every time I said "root". I learned to adjust t

Re: Pronunciations (spun off of another thread)

2021-05-21 Thread Jesse 1 Robinson
As if this topic were not tangled enough, it's complicated by U.S. dialect differences. ROOT In some locales, this word rhymes with 'boot', in others it rhymes with 'foot'. Many people can use both pronunciations interchangeably. ROUT This word in all dialects rhymes with 'scout'. Little effe

Re: How can I tell the zFS files being used by my application

2021-05-21 Thread Andrew Rowley
On 20/05/2021 6:25 pm, Colin Paice wrote: Are there any magic options to say "load a jar - just once ... not once for each thread", or to tell Java to load from the shared classes cache? It feels like an old (non java) problem of having a non reentrant load module, so it was loaded from disk eve